Posted on 01/03/2018 11:47:13 AM PST by simpson96
The University of California-San Diego is now embroiled in a personal injury lawsuit after an election protest gone wrong.
Mariana Flores, a sophomore at UCSD, was demonstrating against Donald Trump’s victory on a busy San Diego freeway when a vehicle hit her. The accident crushed her pelvis, fractured her leg, and caused other serious injuries, reported The Guardian campus newspaper.
Flores, in her suit filed in late November, partly blames campus officials for her injury, arguing they should have stopped the protest before it got dangerous, according to news reports.(snip)
In an interview with The Guardian, Gene Sullivan, Flores’s lawyer, asserted that the university planned, organized and knew the protest was happening for hours and did nothing to stop it.
“According to Sullivan, not doing anything and failing to act is legally the same thing as supporting the protest,” the newspaper reported. “Sullivan further alleged that the protest was encouraged by people in positions of authority at the university, and that ‘if anyone that is in authority with the university – a [Residential Advisor] – says ‘let’s go,’ the university would be responsible.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
People who tend to play the woman/victim card a lot, more often double down on stupid.
Fractured pelvis. No more boom boom for that babysan, at least for a long while. Maybe she can also claim loss of consortium.
It is merely an “Honorable Mention” when the idiots survive. To truly earn the Darwin Award one’s genes must be removed from the gene pool via one’s stupid behavior.
Can they both lose?
The car that stuck Flores had gotten around an emergency vehicle that had been attempting to block traffic so authorities could shut down the freeway, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Just a few days ago there was another idiot protestor who ran into busy traffic and got hit by a pickup truck (Portland, OR, I believe). The video is on the web and is pretty amazing, the moron just dashes right into traffic as though expecting the waters to part.
Her lawyer should lose his license. He is arguing that the university should be help responsible for not stopping her from standing in front of fast moving vehicles.
Don’t play - or protest - in traffic, moron. I told my kids that when they first learn to walk...
I’ll volunteer for that jury...
Seems to be a lot of that happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC5TU7R0KiY
One of the best Taranto WSJ ‘News Of The Tautological’ entries I saw was:
Man on tracks hit by train
Back in 2006 I drove my daughter to the University of Virginia campus for an interview with the AFROTC Commandant. We were about two blocks from our building when classes let out and the students just started walking across and down the roads en mass. They didn't even look for my vehicle nor did they seem to even care. It looked like a scene from The Walking Dead.
Stupid leftists play stupid games, they win stupid prizes. Too bad she wasn’t a winner of a Darwin Award.
The headline should read, “Stupid UCSD students play in a busy street, gets hit by cars. Don’t hire USCD students!
Mark
May you have many children, and instruct them likewise.
FReegards
SirL
However, many of these protests were encouraged by the staff and faculty of the schools involved (up to and including giving students academic credits for protesting) and it wouldn’t surprise me if this was the case at UCSD. That means they get some responsibility.
Hey, for all we know, she’s an “undocumented student protester”.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/25484/injured-uc-san-diego-student-sues-school-failing-emily-zanotti#
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